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Apr 2009
By Marco Castroni — Filed under: AD Round Up ,Architecture News ,Healthcare Architecture ,Housing ,Politics ,Refurbishment ,Sustainability ,Theory and History ,Urban Design ,Urban Planning , Chile, Frank Gehry, Housing, Jane Jacobs, Moshe Safdie, Robert Neuwirth, USA
The model #1: Napoli, quartieri Spagnoli (image: flickr)
If the mainstream view on the slums describes them as places to escape from and as to destroy as soon as possible, more and more people look at slums in a different way.
The first glances at slums were from some of the architects involved in urban renewal projects, who started to integrate in their projects some elements of the slums. Some of the recurrent features are:
- narrow courtyards and alleys
- division of the building into small blocks
- use of different colors and materials within the same building.
